Improvement in brush-ferrules



W. F. LOREY.

Brush Ferrules.

Patented March H, 1873.

.M INVENTOR;

UNITED STATEs PATENT orrron.

f WILLIAM F. LOREY, 0F MENDON, NEW YORK.

IMPRQVEMENT IN BRUSH-FERRULES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,606, dated March 11, 1873.

II 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. LOREY, of the town of Mendon, in the county of Monroe and the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cup-Ferrules for Paint-Brushes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it behings to understand the same and makeuse o it.

Reference is had to the drawing and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

' Figure 1 represents a side view of an ordinary paint-brush and handle without my improvement. Fig.2 represents thesame view with my improvement attached to it, A being the brush; B, the ferrule; G, the band; h h showing the flare of the band, and a, slip-joint on the side, that permits each half to slip past each other, so as to expand or contract the same. at pleasure. Fig. 3 represents the ferrule B and the band 0, separated f, the flange at the top of the ferrule; d, rivet to hold the two parts together; and a, slip-joint. Fig. 4 represents a top view of the ferrule. B is the solid part; D, the perforation for the handle; and a a, slip-joint.

The object of my invention is to hold the bristles of which the brush is made in a close, compact form when they are long and filled with paint, as then they spread apartand are unmanageable, and leave the paint, after it is spread on, in streaks, and thicker in some places than in others. By holding them in a compact form the brush lays the paint on evenly and uniformly. It consists in a metal ferrule or clip two to three inches long, and the diameter to suit the size or diameter of the brush; but just enough larger than the brush to allow it to slip on and off with ease; solid on top except the perforation for the handle, a slip-joint on the opposite sides of the same, and a metal band forpressing the lower end of the ferrule together.

A, Fig. 1, represents an ordinary paintbrush; A, the bristles; D, wood handle; j, the wire or twine binding confining the parts together.

I slip my band C over the top of the handle D and down on the brush A far enough to be below the ferrule B when properly adjusted. I then put the cup-ferrule B down over the top of the handle D, the handle passing through the perforation at the top of the ferrule, and leaving the flange to fit around the handle at f. I then clasp the ferrule near the lower end at'a, Fig. 2, with one hand, and. press the ferrule close around the brush.

Having thus dcscribed my improvement, what I claim, and desire to obtain by Letters. Patent, is

The metallic cup-ferrule B with two or more slip-joints a a, in combination with the metal band C, as and for the purposes herein dcscribed and specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of August, A. D. 1872.

WILLIAM. F. LOREY.

\Vitnesses:

A. G. PARSONS, W. G. BARNES. 

